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Working a Room: Effective Tactics that Anybody Can Use

Description

Part of the Networking Soup to Nuts Series

Pre-registration for this event is closed.
Please register at the door.

Networking Soup to Nuts Series

Still don’t get it, networking for fun and profit. Here is the second event in a four-part Networking Soup to Nuts series guaranteed to create mastery of the networking process from making the first contact, working a room, to following up and keeping in touch.

Speaker

Patti Wilson, Managing Principal of CareerCompany.com Founder, The Wednesdayjobgroup, a 2000 member online networking group

Presentation Overview: Working a Room

Walking into a room full of strangers and coming away with new friends, good contacts, and leads to opportunities takes learned skills and practical methods. These can be acquired by the shyest of people to enable them to feel comfortable mingling while out-going types can perfect and polish their abilities to make contacts. The topics covered in this workshop include:

Patti Wilson, Founder, The Career Company Patti Wilson, owner of the Career Company. empowers individuals with her expert knowledge, inspiration and motivation to go after and get the rewards and fulfillment they want in their work lives. This year, Patti has been interviewed by CBS's Early Show, PBS Radio's California Report, KGO and KPIX TV, NBC3's Business News, Fortune Magazine, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News.

Featured as a resource in "What Color is Your Parachute" since 1988,and with a Masters Degree in Career Development, Patti has coached literally thousands of Bay Area professionals to choose the perfect career, find the right job and thrive in any workplace. She has worked for Fortune 500 Bay Area companies in human resources as an Employment Manager at Sun Microsystems as well in recruiting at Apple and AMD and a director in career services at Santa Clara University.

Event Logistics

Location

SDForum

111 West Saint John, Suite 200

San Jose, CA 95113

Phone: 408-494-8378

Agenda

11:45am - 12:00pm Registration

12:00-2:00pm Presentation

Cost (Refreshments included; NOT lunch, please bring your own!)

$15 SDForum Members

$30 Non-members

Pre-registration for this event is closed.
Please register at the door.